Zezé Motta

The re-telling of the Greek mythical love affair between Orfeu and Eurídice transplanted to modern-day Brazil. (New Yorker Films)

Just when her family starts believing that she is dead, and that they can expect a rich heritage, Tieta returns from Sao Paulo to her native village in Bahia, which she had been forced to leave long ago because of some involvement with a goat herd... (imdb)

Having come out recently from jail, a tramp decides to cheat a false millionaire, who only appears to be rich. (imdb)

In Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, the homosexual drug dealer lord Rainha Diaba (Milton Gonçalves) decides to find a scapegoat to save his lover from the jail for traffic with students. His gang, under the command of Catitu (Nelson Xavier), uses the young pimp Bereco (Stepan Nercessian), but he escapes from the police siege and decides to break and rob the points where Rainha Diaba sells his marijuana, initiating a bloody war against the powerful dealer. (imdb)

Palmares is a 17th-century quilombo, a settlement of escaped slaves in northeast Brazil. In 1650, plantation slaves revolt and head for the mountains where they find others led by the aged seer, Acotirene. She anoints one who becomes Ganga Zumba, a legendary king... (imdb)

Middle-class family reform their apartment, and the noise, the contact with the workers and strange occurrences turn what was supposed to be a trivial matter into a trip to hell. (imdb)

Based on a short story by Machado de Assis.

The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine attributes" in order to get power. (imdb)

Earning her living by dubbing American TV Series, a woman dreams of becoming an international Hollywood star. (imdb)

Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as "eternity single". However, he is then discovered by his illegitimate daughter to have gotten his fortune and his women in unorthodox and incredible ways. (imdb)

Based on the work of Jorge Amado, the film narrates the interrracial love between a rich daughter of a commander and Antonio Balduíno, a black orphan of mount Capa-Negro, in Salvador, protected by the sorcerer Jubiabá.

Jéssica, 15 years old, lives in a village in the Northeast of Brazil. She can't bear her fathers cruelty and escapes to Recife, a metropole. But after getting involved with prostitution and drugs, she dreams of a better life in Germany.

In Eldorado, where the Company Progress mixes the most modern and primitive forms of work, George, a slave in a mine in selenium, can escape taking advantage of his expertise in the game of capoeira.

Kira, a botanist who is also the daughter of elves, must fight the powerful wicked witch Algaz. For this, Kira will have the help of Epifânia, the good witch, the elf Dáfnis and even the Queen Dara, the fairy-mother. (Cineplayers)

Little girl and her imaginary friend

Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of the main composers of Portela, an important Samba "school" in Rio de Janeiro. (imdb)

Based on the musical play "Pobre Menina Rica" (Poor Rich Girl), by Vinícius de Moraes and Carlos Lyra, it tells the story of people from slums occupying an empty town and establishing a new society there. At the same time, a rich girl falls in love with a shanty-town guy. (imdb)

Tonho Tiê really likes to live free, play capoeira and drink in the Mercado Modelo. During Carnival knows Zulmira, a beautiful woman. On Wednesday of ash, day Iansã and Shango, make vows of love and projects of many children. But time passes and Tonio again the womanizer who had always been. Zulmira, daughter of Iansã, does not support the nerve to Tonio, and asks her mother-in-saint to wash his honor with blood

Middle class family get together in an old mansion about to be demolished, where they have lived the last 40 years. In this meeting, as they start remembering the past, the passions, hate and generation conflicts come into play again. (imdb)

Smart extraterrestrial cat, invented thousands of lies to cause its owner, a poor peasant, to pass by a wealthy marquis, so to win the heart of the princess.

During the slavery period in Brazil, a sugar cane farm was the stage for the darkest kinds of horrors. Years later, the place's cruel past is still stained in its walls, even if unnoticed, until a series of strange events starts happening and death returns to the farm. The film is divided in five short horror stories.

1) globalization of violence, violence of globalization? 2) serial killers, social killers? 3) a mine in brazil some murders in new york others in miami how are they connected? 4) "who's putting dynamite at the head of the century" asks tom zé -singing- at the end of the film 5) "cobrador - in god we trust" is an invitation to search the answers to these questions. "cobrador - in god we trust" is an attempt to find the answers to these questions.

A night in Rio de Janeiro when Donga created the first recorded Samba.